Wearing letters in colors other than your GLO's

[susan314]

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

I've heard a lot about getting letters in patterns or colors that match for your littles so your "family" shares a common theme. Is this a relatively new thing?
I have a photo of me and my big and her big...etc. going up to 5 of us but other than that, I had never heard of "families" within a chapter before. It seems like it's being discussed in general more now than ever before. It's been 20 years since I was in college. Any other "oldsters" have any perspective on this?

In Alpha Gamma Delta, we don't have "bigs and littles." We have sister-mothers (our equivalent of a "big") and sister-daughters (our equivalent of a "little").

I pledged in 1992, and our chapter "families" were a pretty big deal. You had your mom, grandma, great-grandma, etc, and we kept track of them pretty diligently. It was fun at Homecoming to meet an alumnae, recognize the name, and say "hey...you're my great-great-great grandma!"

[rufio]

my chapter wears our letters in other colors other than our own. i just ordered a new shirt with plaid red letters on a black shirt. and my first set of formal letters was light blue and navy blue instead of blue and gold

[bejazd]

Thanks for being honest, Baby Pink! I can understand where you are coming from, if that is that tradition on your campus! My own GPhi chapter did not have chapter colors, we always considered our colors to be brown and mode, but we had letters in every color. Most Gamma Phi merchandise that is "manufactured" is pink...and we Gamma Phis def consider pink to be an important part of our identity...brown and mode have ritual and historical signifigance.

As for letters are your rear end...its a no no according my new age, hedonistic Southern Calif upbringing too! Keep your letters close to your heart!

[AlexMack]

I like my butt pants, they're comfy The funniest butt letters I've seen were SDT's. No offense to SDT at all, but you already know your letters spell EAT. Imagine seeing that on someone's behind.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by centaur532

I like my butt pants, they're comfy The funniest butt letters I've seen were SDT's. No offense to SDT at all, but you already know your letters spell EAT. Imagine seeing that on someone's behind.

I've never had butt letters for fear of one of those letter wedgies. I've seen them on other girls on campus, and my friends and I decided that if you don't have 3 letters, butt pants/shorts are a bad plan.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

I've never had butt letters for fear of one of those letter wedgies. I've seen them on other girls on campus, and my friends and I decided that if you don't have 3 letters, butt pants/shorts are a bad plan.

Can you describe a letter wedgie?

Again, I wouldn't put letters on my butt (frowned upon by chapter; not campus culture) but I am fond of my Victoria Secret "PINK" capris which have a huge rose colored PINK written on the bootie and the actual capris are white and they do match many of my Phi Mu recruitment shirts! They are a kinda great tool without being "direct". You can't get much bigger than that PINK (and they actually make my butt look great! I get TONS of compliments with them, they emphasize ).

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

Can you describe a letter wedgie?

Again, I wouldn't put letters on my butt (frowned upon by chapter; not campus culture) but I am fond of my Victoria Secret "PINK" capris which have a huge rose colored PINK written on the bootie and the actual capris are white and they do match many of my Phi Mu recruitment shirts! They are a kinda great tool without being "direct". You can't get much bigger than that PINK (and they actually make my butt look great! I get TONS of compliments with them, they emphasize ).

Ha ha, it's when you get a wedgie in your letter shorts or pants and the letters are part of the wedgie. When faced with a letter wedgie it becomes extremely difficult to identify the sorority because the letters are smushed together or parially obscured by the wedgie.

And dude, some of those things got WEDGED. *shudder* So, for example ADPi works because the Delta prevents the wedgie, but SK doesn't because a wedgie could/would occur.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by susan314

In Alpha Gamma Delta, we don't have "bigs and littles." We have sister-mothers (our equivalent of a "big") and sister-daughters (our equivalent of a "little").

I pledged in 1992, and our chapter "families" were a pretty big deal. You had your mom, grandma, great-grandma, etc, and we kept track of them pretty diligently. It was fun at Homecoming to meet an alumnae, recognize the name, and say "hey...you're my great-great-great grandma!"

Our chapter keeps track of it pretty well...family trees are a popular gift to sis-daughters. Unfortunately I don't know anything past my great-grandma, but I'm making sure my family will keep track from now on, so they'll know for generations to come!


Oh and butt-letters? I might be biased because I refuse to wear anything on my butt (I think it's a HEYHEYLOOKATME thing...I do not like these things.), but even if I did...that's disrespectful to SIT on your letters constantly. I mean really...sit, fart...NO. There's an easy solution, too...there are track pants with letters down one of the legs. If you must have letters on your pants, what's wrong with those? They're cute and at least they aren't being SAT upon.

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl

Our chapter keeps track of it pretty well...family trees are a popular gift to sis-daughters. Unfortunately I don't know anything past my great-grandma, but I'm making sure my family will keep track from now on, so they'll know for generations to come!


Oh and butt-letters? I might be biased because I refuse to wear anything on my butt (I think it's a HEYHEYLOOKATME thing...I do not like these things.), but even if I did...that's disrespectful to SIT on your letters constantly. I mean really...sit, fart...NO. There's an easy solution, too...there are track pants with letters down one of the legs. If you must have letters on your pants, what's wrong with those? They're cute and at least they aren't being SAT upon.

Ladies do not fart, they exhale anally and their exhalations smell of cinnamon buns and roses.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by centaur532

Ladies do not fart, they exhale anally and their exhalations smell of cinnamon buns and roses.

Then I sure do not know many ladies...and I wish EVERYONE's anal exhalations resulted in roses and cinnamon buns. Then I would have been happier in my freshman math class...there was this ONE guy....

[guardedbystars]

Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl

Oh and butt-letters? I might be biased because I refuse to wear anything on my butt (I think it's a HEYHEYLOOKATME thing...I do not like these things.), but even if I did...that's disrespectful to SIT on your letters constantly. I mean really...sit, fart...NO. There's an easy solution, too...there are track pants with letters down one of the legs. If you must have letters on your pants, what's wrong with those? They're cute and at least they aren't being SAT upon.

I was having a discussion with one of my friends who is not in ADPi and she said her chapter was fine with having them (I'm not going to say who), but I think it's completely disrespectful to have your letters on your butt. You don't take your letters to the bar, to drink, to have sex...

I also agree -- I would hate thinking people are staring at my butt wondering with "A Triangle HUH?" is. haha.